2017 Program

Event #30

Darwin Pastorin

In search of the lost net

Soccer is a “popular romance”, a collective and personal memory, our youth taking us by the hand. Moreover, as Giovanni Arpino, Eduardo Galeano and Osvaldo Soriano have taught us, it is an endless source of stories: from Manè Garrincha’s lopsided feint to Maradona dribbling a drop, from Moacir Barbosa’s interrupted flight to Obdulio Varela‘s pride and melancholy. In other words, a “Great Game” of tales and dreams, of literature and imagination, where Umberto Saba and Gigi Buffon, Antonio Tabucchi and Francesco Totti, Peter Handke and Omar Sivori, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Baggio, Guido Gozzano and Gigi Meroni all play together, with passion. Stories of goals and own goals, of memorable overhead kicks and incredibly missed opportunities. On the field and in life.

was born in 1955 in San Paolo del Brasile to Italian parents. Making a name for himself at Guerin Sportivo, he was a correspondent and deputy editor at Tuttosport, director of Tele+ and Stream Tv, New Programs director for Sky Sport, director of La7 Sport and Quartarete Tv. He has a blog on Huffington Post. Lettera a un giovane calciatore (chiarelettere) is his latest book. Speaking of him, Eduardo Galeano stated: «As a devotee of belle-lettres and good soccer, I read Darwin Patorin’s sportscasts like one attending Mass».